Don DeLillo Did 9/11
...II his protagonist — a reclusive novelist — gives voice to fear that the medium is going out of fashion: The novel used to feed our search for meaning…. But...
Violence Is Mine
...at its margins or, to use a more appropriate metaphor, in its feed. This fuels the slippage between everyday activity and symbolic violence that characters in digital works undergo —...
Oculus Birth
...experience." Figure 5: The live feed. Figure 6: The mother experiences the birth of her child from the child's perspective. Figure 7: Crowning. Figure 9: "Happy Birthday." Figure 10: The...
Work Appropriate
...voice is one I look forward to seeing pop up in my blog feed. She's also written for The Closet Feminist, Lacquerheads of Oz, and The Peach. When I learned...
Addicted to Failure
...plant vast fields of wheat, I can grow it more efficiently than if I diversify. Then I can feed more people. This logic ignores the complex, circular networks of causality...
The Magnetic North
...so happens we decide that seeking them from “legitimate” authorities is normative. It’s as though the psychics were providing a live feed, a form of surveillance. Traversing such long...
Death and Life in Great American Cities
To bury a loved one from Queens is to confront displacement in the here and beyond
Sunday Reading
...making feminist points Maasai women on Mindy Bugdor's warrior princess online cult of the angry man why was a major art survey 91% male? don't feed the trolls AKA silence...
The Day After Yesterday, Part 2: The Gathering Storm
...ahead and Tom, I swear, if you so much as start to utter the word “composition of the visual plane” one more time, I will feed you to my dogs,...
Nairobi in the Age of the World Target
...I speak, but neither was Westgate a space I ever felt comfortable in, probably because of its calculated efforts to reassure a clientele that looked and spent like me. Like...
Lumps of Labor
...or under what conditions — they’re at least creating some value and thereby doing their part to feed the Economy rather than leeching value out of it. Given how much...
The Networked Assembly Line
...of their business model. For example, Facebook uses machine learning to continually adjust what you see in your news feed by using your past activity to make a prediction about...
Boom and Rust
...and mercury sticks around. “The Gold Rush is still poisoning the Golden State,” she writes. Forests were clear-cut to feed gold smelters. Bears and wolves were driven out by the...
The Algorithm and the Watchtower
...cameras for them to be effective. By contrast, the algorithm is invisible as it constructs its composites; it ever runs silently in the background like all that circuitry, voltage, and...
A Cryptoeconomy of Affect
Can the blockchain finally solve the problem of how to sustain decentralized political momentum without resorting to centralized institutions?
An Infantile Disorder
...They take refuge in the home because “the household is the only place they feel like they belong.” But it’s also where someone will feed them. (It’s not uncommon for...